National Confab Rejects Creation of State Police

  Power Devolution Committee of the National Conference really have their hands full this time. Delegates could not reach a consensus whether mineral resources, mines, natural gas, oil fields and geological surveys should be retained in the exclusive list or listed as a concurrent legislative item.

 Also, advocates of state police failed to include police in the concurrent list as delegates insisted on the centralisation of Police, insisting that Nigeria is not ripe for state police.

 Last week,  delegates of the National Conference Committee on Power Devolution failed to reach agreement on whether to include  item 39 (Mines, Mineral Resources, Oil Fields and Natural Resources) in the federal legislative list or the federal government should share its legislatives duties in the concurrent list with the states bearing oil and other mineral resources.

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